Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunaree Latin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunaree Latin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03813, -6.76299
- SMR number
- MO028-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 36m E-W; 32.6m NNE-SSW) with some rock outcrop defined by a grass-covered stone spread over an earthen bank (at SSW: Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) which has an external stone facing and is frequently reduced to an external stone-faced scarp (at NNE: H 1.5m). The perimeter is incorporated into a stone field wall and townland boundary (at NW: Wth 2m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.3m) with Dunaree S-NW. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance gap (Wth of base 1.5m) at S. The rath (MO028-025----) is across the valley c. 120m to the SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 6 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.